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1 Грех Иуды написан железным резцом, алмазным острием начертан на скрижали сердца их и на рогах жертвенников их.

2 Как о сыновьях своих, воспоминают они о жертвенниках своих и дубравах своих у зеленых дерев, на высоких холмах.

3 Гору Мою в поле, имущество твое и все сокровища твои отдам на расхищение, и все высоты твои – за грехи во всех пределах твоих.

4 И ты чрез себя лишишься наследия твоего, которое Я дал тебе, и отдамтебя в рабство врагам твоим, в землю, которой ты не знаешь, потому что вы воспламенили огонь гнева Моего; он будет гореть вовеки.

5 Так говорит Господь: проклят человек, который надеется на человека и плоть делает своею опорою, и которого сердце удаляется от Господа.

6 Он будет как вереск в пустыне и не увидит, когда придет доброе, и поселится в местах знойных в степи, на земле бесплодной, необитаемой.

7 Благословен человек, который надеется на Господа, и которого упование – Господь.

8 Ибо он будет как дерево, посаженное при водах и пускающее корни свои у потока; не знает оно, когда приходит зной; лист его зелен, и во время засухи оно не боится и не перестает приносить плод.

9 Лукаво сердце человеческое более всего и крайне испорчено; ктоузнает его?

10 Я, Господь, проникаю сердце и испытываю внутренности, чтобы воздать каждому по пути его и по плодам дел его.

11 Куропатка садится на яйца, которых не несла; таков приобретающий богатство неправдою: он оставит его на половине дней своих, и глупцом останется при конце своем.

12 Престол славы, возвышенный от начала, есть место освящения нашего.

13 Ты, Господи, надежда Израилева; все, оставляющие Тебя, посрамятся. „Отступающие от Меня будут написаны на прахе, потому что оставили Господа, источник воды живой".

14 Исцели меня, Господи, и исцелен буду; спаси меня, и спасен буду; ибо Ты хвала моя.

15 Вот, они говорят мне: „где слово Господне? пусть оно придет!"

16 Я не спешил быть пастырем у Тебя и не желал бедственного дня, Ты это знаешь; что вышло из уст моих, открыто пред лицем Твоим.

17 Не будь страшен для меня, Ты – надежда моя в день бедствия.

18 Пусть постыдятся гонители мои, а я не буду постыжен; пусть они вострепещут, а я буду бестрепетен; наведи на них день бедствия и сокруши их сугубым сокрушением.

19 Так сказал мне Господь: пойди и стань в воротах сынов народа, которыми входят цари Иудейские и которыми они выходят, и во всех воротах Иерусалимских,

20 и говори им: слушайте слово Господне, цари Иудейские, и вся Иудея, и все жители Иерусалима, входящие сими воротами.

21 Так говорит Господь: берегите души свои и не носите нош в день субботний и не вносите их воротами Иерусалимскими,

22 и не выносите нош из домов ваших в день субботний, и не занимайтесь никакою работою, но святите день субботний так, как Я заповедал отцам вашим,

23 которые впрочем не послушались и не приклонили уха своего, но сделались жестоковыйными, чтобы не слушать и не принимать наставления.

24 И если вы послушаете Меня в том, говорит Господь, чтобы не носить нош воротами сего города в день субботний и чтобы святить субботу, не занимаясь в этот день никакою работою,

25 то воротами сего города будут входить цари и князья, сидящие на престоле Давида, ездящие на колесницах и на конях, они икнязья их, Иудеи и жители Иерусалима, и город сей будет обитаем вечно.

26 И будут приходить из городов Иудейских, и из окрестностей Иерусалима, и из земли Вениаминовой, и с равнины и с гор и с юга, и приносить всесожжение и жертву, и хлебное приношение, и ливан, и благодарственные жертвы в дом Господень.

27 А если не послушаете Меня в том, чтобы святить день субботний и не носить нош, входя в ворота Иерусалима в день субботний, то возжгу огонь в воротах его, и он пожрет чертоги Иерусалима и не погаснет.

   

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Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture # 2

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2. Someone who thinks in this way, however, does not reflect that Jehovah Himself, the God of heaven and earth, spoke the Word through Moses and the prophets, and that it must therefore be Divine truth itself. For whatever Jehovah Himself utters is such truth. Nor does that person reflect that the Lord, who is the same as Jehovah, spoke the Word reported by the Gospel writers, much of it in person, and the rest by the breath of His mouth, which is the Holy Spirit. Consequently what He Himself says is, in His own words, life, and He is the light that enlightens, and truth personified.

[2] That Jehovah Himself spoke the Word through the prophets is something we showed in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord 52-53.

That the words the Lord Himself spoke, as reported by the Gospel writers, are life, is something He said in John:

The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. (John 6:63)

Again in John, Jesus said to the woman at Jacob’s spring:

If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, “Give Me a drink, ” you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.... Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:6, 10, 14)

Jacob’s spring symbolizes the Word, as in Deuteronomy 33:28 as well. That, too, is why the Lord sat there and spoke with the woman. And the water symbolizes the Word’s truth.

[3] Again in John:

...Jesus...(said), “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture says, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:37-38)

And again:

...Peter (said to Jesus), “...You have the words of eternal life.” (John 6:68)

Therefore the Lord says in Mark:

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. (Mark 13:31)

The Lord’s words are life because He is the life and the truth, as He tells us in John:

I am the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6)

And again in John:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.... In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1, 4)

The Word there means the Lord in relation to Divine truth, in which alone there is life and light.

[4] It is on this account that the Word, being from the Lord and embodying the Lord, is called “a fountain of living waters” (Jeremiah 2:13, 17:13), “a fountain of salvation” (Isaiah 12:3), “a fountain” (Zechariah 13:1). Also “a river of the water of life” (Revelation 22:1). And we are told that “the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters” (Revelation 7:17).

There are in addition many other places where the Word is called the sanctuary and the tabernacle in which the Lord dwells with mankind.

  
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Thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Doctrine of the Lord # 52

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52. Jehovah Himself, that is, the Lord, spoke the Word through the prophets. Regarding the prophets, we read that they were in a state of vision, and that Jehovah spoke with them.

When they were in a state of vision, they were not present in their body, but in their spirit, and in that state they saw things of the kind found in heaven. But when Jehovah spoke with them, they were then present in their body and heard Jehovah speaking.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be clearly distinguished. In a state of vision the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body closed; and they then seemed to themselves to be conveyed from place to place, their body not moving from where it was.

Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel were at times in this state, and so was John when he was writing the book of Revelation. We are also told then that they were in a state of vision or in the spirit. Ezekiel, indeed, says:

The spirit took me up and returned me in a vision (of God) by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. (So) the vision that I had seen went up from me. (Ezekiel 11:24, cf. 11:1)

He says that the spirit lifted him up, and that he heard behind him an earthquake, and other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between the earth and heaven, and brought him in the visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.).

It was in a vision of God, or in the spirit, therefore, that he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1,10). And also a new earth and a new temple, and an angel measuring them (as described in chapters 40-48). He says that he was then in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit then lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

The same experience befell Zechariah when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.); when he saw four horns, and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18, 2:1ff.); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.); when he saw a lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.); when he saw a flying scroll and an ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6); and when he saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:3), and when he saw battles of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). We read that he saw these things in a state of vision (Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13, 8:2, 10:1, 7-8); and that the angel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision and spoke with him (Daniel 9:21-22).

The same experience befell John when he was writing the book of Revelation, who says that he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day (Revelation 1:10); that he was carried away in the spirit into the wilderness (Revelation 17:3), and in the spirit onto a high mountain (Revelation 21:10); that in a vision he saw horses (Revelation 9:17). And elsewhere that he saw the things he described, thus seeing them in the spirit or in a vision (Revelation 1:12, 4:1, 5:1, 6:1, and so on in each of the following chapters).

  
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Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.